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> Do you value self expression? Did you train the AI yourself? On your own music? Or was music scrapped from Net and blended in LLM?
by Ygg2 1y ago
> Do you value self expression?
Did you train the AI yourself? On your own music? Or was music scrapped from Net and blended in LLM?
- Eisenstein 1y agoDo you believe that music made from samples is not original?
- yardie 1y agoMost of the courts don’t think they are. Early rap beats used lots of samples. Some of the most popular hip hop songs made $0 for the artists as they had to pay royalties on those samples.
- Eisenstein 1y agoMost synthesizers use sampled instruments.
- yardie 1y agoAnd those sampled instruments were copyrighted by the manufacturers: YamahaGS, RolandXM, Alesis, Korg, etc. Early hip-hop were sampling disco and R&B records and got roundly slapped once they become popular for money to be involved.
- Eisenstein 1y agoThat doesn't answer the question if music composed of samples is considered original, though. It is merely a legal ruling about some music from a certain time period that a lot of people would consider original.
- ndriscoll 1y agoNo one cares about what the law thinks about art though, particularly for personal consumption or sharing with a small group. Copyright law doesn't even pretend to be slightly just or aligned with reality.
- Ygg2 1y agoI could see that remixes are partially original. But you're not even doing the remixing; the LLMs are.
- ben_w 1y agoIndeed. Text rather than music, but same argument applies: Based on what I've seen Charlie Stross blog on the topic of why he doesn't self publish/the value-add of a publisher, any creativity on the part of the prompter* of an LLM is analogous to the creativity on the part of a publisher, not on the part of an author. * at least for users who don't just use AI output to get past writer's block; there's lots of different ways to use AI
- postholedigger 1y agoNot only did they create an entirely new language of music notation, all instruments used were hand made by the same creator, including tanning the animal skins to be used as drum material, and insisting the music be recorded on wax drums to prevent any marring of the artistic vision via digital means.